How to Change Author on Git Commits on an Entire Repository

[@がんすき]

Thank you for this! very helpful and straight to the point.

[@TutorialTim]

Thank you!

[@siegblink182]

Super amazing! This saved me a lot of time fixing the author mixup issue in my Github account. Thank you very much.

[@TutorialTim]

Thank you!

[@junioranheu]

Thank you very much, it worked like a charm. For those who are struggling with the "bad revision" error, don't use Windows or GIT CMD, use the Windows Powershell instead

[@TutorialTim]

Awesome, glad it helped!!

[@TomChristerSchöön]

This really helped me, thanks a lot man!

[@ankitaghadge.1337]

How can i permanently change author name for commit for all repositories?? Every time when i am doing first commit to pushing the project on GitHub its showing someone else author name. What i can do?

[@jen24499]

Real hero who saves people from ShitHub tortures... Ty man! Btw, whoever is wondering if it works on Windows or not, the answer is yes. I'm using Win10 and it works fine, just repeat for the author.

[@TutorialTim]

Lol this comment made my day! Thank you for watching and glad this video helped! Keep on committin' 😎

[@clipshistoricosca8326]

THANKS MAN! this literally saved all of my coding work that didnt appear!!!!!!!!!! thanks really appreciate it!

[@TutorialTim]

Glad I could help, happy coding! xD

[@m4heshd]

By the way, the SHA-1 commit hash is not a feature of GitHub. It's a core feature of Git. Also when you perform this all the SHA-1s will change because how the commits are chained to each other using this hash. It's a dangerous thing to do on a mature repository with multiple authors or other functionality referencing hash.

[@TutorialTim]

Updated the description of the video. Thanks!

[@m4heshd]

@@TutorialTim Wonderful. 👍🏻

[@liambirt3758]

​@@TutorialTim hey Tim, thanks for the video but I'm a bit confused by this particular chain (relatively new to Linux, Git & Github). I forked a pretty sizable repo and got the hyperlink of my forked version, then went to my CLI and ran: "git clone --bare " My goal is to swap all company names and abbreviations within the code and author information out of my fork and as I add on then I can just do so in their original repo. That said, I don't want to change authors in their repo ha and I'm also not finding how you changed everything within the code (markdown)?

[@almirsantos99]

You're insane dude, really thank you, i maded thousands commits on "ubuntu" user (lol), now i have it to my account. Amazing

[@TutorialTim]

Ahhh thank goodness! Bet that commit history is looking beautiful now haha

[@Caveine]

my godness its work, thanks man.

[@TutorialTim]

Thank you!

[@junialdy]

Thank you! this really helped me

[@rabbymir5934]

Great video, thanks! I had committed using my work e-mail same as you.

[@vommir.]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@g.t.3482]

It was very helpful and quick! thanks for posting this...

[@TutorialTim]

Of course!

[@ciaran487]

Great tutorial thanks Tim!

[@TutorialTim]

Thank you!

[@info662]

still works in 2021. Thanks man

[@TutorialTim]

Woot woot!

[@tejashelwatkar7894]

Great tutorial. Thank you so much!!

[@kylamarjes3438]

thank you for this tutorial. it works for me!

[@TutorialTim]

Thank you!

[@irazirfan]

omg! that did work! You are the boss man, thanks a lot for sharing :)

[@ajetunmobiisaac3152]

Thank you, this was really helpful

[@TutorialTim]

Awesome, glad I could help!

[@yuvrajsingh-my5oz]

Thanks a ton bro....You really saved me...

[@chiragranpara9580]

Thanks buddy! it is really helpful

[@malikhaseeb6236]

Man you saved my life. Thank you

[@TutorialTim]

You bet! Gotta have those commits logged accordingly lol

[@timmymanamperi]

thanks heaps for the video very useful one for me. tc

[@iuryweblondon]

Awesome, you saved me, thank you!!!

[@cameronpartee2949]

Thank you thank you!! This saved my life!! :)

[@TutorialTim]

Thank you, Cameron! :)

[@gurmukhsingh-uh5qo]

thanks for sharing, worked great

[@zayan184]

not working in my case 😭

[@JobinSelvanose]

Thanks

[@eBlackize]

I'm getting an error saying "zsh: event not found: /bin/sh"

[@ferozahmed3496]

It's amazing! How can I run this script for another branch? Is it possible?

[@stefano_girardelli]

Amazing tutorial! This was the only way I could fix it. Thank yout!

[@TutorialTim]

Glad I could help!

[@mansithakkar4725]

I followed the same it worked but it created duplicate commits with new details ... How to remove all duplicate one??

[@ankitaghadge.1337]

I can able to change the author name for the commit but the old author name is still there in contributors. How can I remove it?

[@leenabhandari5949]

helpful, Thanks!

[@HaoTran-hd7io]

you save my day, thanks a lot :D

[@Qwerter1410]

Thank you!

[@srinidhisaravanan2764]

Hi, thanks for this method, but even after rewriting, it is not reflecting in the github remote, can anyone help me

[@樊腾飞]

Hi Tim, it worked in the default branch master, but some commits in other branch like dev, but the question is i couldn't update email in this branch, it seems only update your default branch , when i try to checkout branch to dev, it said: fetal: this must be run in a work tree

[@FedericoCuelhoLariau]

Does this procedure change the datestamps on all commits to the date you are correcting the author?

[@piyuinshort]

Wow! it works!!!

[@AnagheemAzzam]

Hello Tim, thanks for the tutorial! I'm on Windows, I tried solving the problem that I have undefined accounts other than my actual account committing to my repo on GitHub. I tried running your script but it keeps showing that error on terminal "fatal: bad revision 'OLD_EMAIL=my_old_email'

[@TutorialTim]

It may be that the OLD_EMAIL variable doesn't have the right e-mail account due to a typo? I would also double check the account you're currently signed into with the command `git config --global user.email` and see which account you're currently on. You can change it with the following: git config --global user.email "[e-mail]" Let me know if that helps!

[@AnagheemAzzam]

@@TutorialTim Thanks for replying. No actually I tried this solution and others before watching your video and nothing worked. when I run the command to check my current email and user name that commits to the repo, it shows my actual and correct username but on the repo there's an undefined username committing instead of the actual one with my pic and so on.

[@TutorialTim]

Did you paste into a notes editor to modify the values linked to the variables? If so I would recommend replacing the quotations in a code editor as pasting into apps such as Notes can convert your quotes into curly quotes. I'd ensure that they're all straight quotes. Hope this helps!

[@ramis2963]

Great video Can someone know that i changed the email or not ? Thanks

[@TutorialTim]

'git log' your commits after making the changes to see who the commits belong to.

[@ernestandersonhutasoit9410]

Thanks, it work. But when i push again it got error. I can avoid error with --force when push it but the author changed back to normal Is it really work like that or i make mistake?

[@alimeree4299]

Error : zsh: event not found: /bin/sh How to solve this error pls!!!?

[@dissonance110]

Hi Tim, great tutorial! Do you know if there would be any issues caused if I did this one a group repo? Looking over the commit history I noticed my contributions were like this and wanted to change them to the correct username/email. Any help you can give me would be great!

[@TutorialTim]

Dissonance no issues, it will just overwrite your commits with the username u specified in the script and replace them with the new one you want. Let me know if that works.

[@dissonance110]

It worked on one project, but not another. I can't tell the difference between the two, but I'll keep digging

[@devilattack-to9ok]

my username and mail is getting changed but I cant see my profile pic in front of them like you. can you please address me.

[@kiattim2100]

the result shown "Ref 'refs/heads/main' was rewritten" But nothing happen, I'm sad.

[@TutorialTim]

Even when u run git log nothing happened? Sounds like your commits have been rewritten

[@kiattim2100]

@@TutorialTim yeah, I might mess with it too much. Right now I'm trying the .mailmap method with git shortlog command and it shows a correct email now, but on the website the commit history is still the same. at this point I will just wait for a few day lmao.

[@kiattim2100]

@@TutorialTim ok It worked! now.. well actually my dumbass forgot to push the update lmao thanks you so much!!

[@TutorialTim]

@@kiattim2100 your not dumb! Just trial and error, happens to me all the time! Happy coding!

[@DrogonTheDread]

Brill thanks all my commits where just sent from git :0

[@TutorialTim]

Excellenttttt

[@brucew6508]

WARNING: Ref 'refs/heads/master' is unchanged my result is not rewritten, what can i do next?

[@TutorialTim]

Hi Bruce, send me your email so we can work together on resolving your issue!

[@brucew6508]

@@TutorialTim Thank you! I just solved it. The secret is to enter the correct OLD_EMAIL. LOL. Your method is perfect.

[@TutorialTim]

@@brucew6508 lol noice. glad you figured it out on your own!

[@harrisongreeves8561]

I'm having the same issue. I've tried both of my old emails but I get the same error. Any idea where to find the email associated with the commits on GitHub?

[@SanjitKumar-kh1hj]

A year late, but I seem to have the same issue. But I've checked my old email, it seems to be right. @Tutorial Tim Any help would be nice. Thanks!

[@mikechadwick2785]

holy shit thank you

[@thecode9078]

Destroyed my entire project insights, thanks a lot

[@abdullahasmkilic3405]

You really helped me. Thanks so much man!

[@TutorialTim]

Of course!